This week a course in the history of knowledge (7.5 ECTS) starts as part of the master programme in historical studies at the Department of History, Lund University. The teachers, David Larsson Heidenblad and Johan Östling, provide this course for a third time. Due to the rapid development of the field, they have revised the…

Tamson Pietsch, a member of LUCK’s International Advisory Board, has published a new book, The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge (University of Chicago Press): The Floating University sheds light on a story of optimism and imperialist ambition in the 1920s. In 1926, New York University professor James E. Lough—an educational reformer with big dreams—embarked…

On Wednesday 3 May, 10.15–12.00 (CET), the history of knowledge seminar returns to discuss two new journal issues covering the history of knowledge and the history of education, published in 2022. History of Education Review, the official journal of the Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society, published a themed section, “The History of…

In a new episode of the podcast Ceteris Never Paribus, the host Maria Bach speaks to Evelina Kallträsk, David Larsson Heidenblad, Anna Nilsson Hammar and Johan Östling, all members of the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK). They discuss what is the history of knowledge and how its approaches might be useful for historians…

The international yearbook History of Intellectual Culture is seeking new contributions for publication in Volume 3 (2024). We are inviting proposals for (1) individual articles for sections I & III as well as (2) guest editors for the thematic section II. HIC focuses on the modern period (from the long 19th century onward) and takes on a decidedly…

For two weeks, five guest researchers have been staying at the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge: Eva Andersen (Antwerp), Marina Bezzi (Brasília), Anne Brædder (Roskilde), Valentina Mann (Cambridge/Florence) and Thomas Ruoss (Zurich). Together, we have discussed their exciting ongoing research, we have debated James Secord’s new article in Isis, we have interacted with Daniel…

Step into the world of the history of spectacular science and the various forms of (un)conventional knowledge that circulated in the nineteenth century through performance and entertainment. Learn about the relation between performance, science, knowledge and its objects and media. Explore how various props such as the magic lantern, panoramas or human exhibitions shaped the public’s perception…

At the Centre for History of Knowledge, we are now announcing a postdoctoral research position in the history of knowledge with a focus on the history of the knowledge society. The focus on the history of the knowledge society means that we emphasize the societal dimension of the history of knowledge. It is important that the…

LUCK will organize a lecture and seminar with Daniel Bellingradt (Augsburg): LectureTuesday, 21 March, 17:15–19.00, Daniel Bellingradt will give the lecture “Entangled Perspectives: Media Echoes in a Communication History of Early Modern Europe”. The lecture will take place in LUX:B152 and on Zoom: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/67551989790 Seminar Wednesday, 22 March, 13:15–15.00, we will discuss the chapter “Reconstructing the early modern news world: Urban space, political conflict,…